{"id":280,"date":"2015-05-14T13:00:34","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T13:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/?p=280"},"modified":"2015-05-14T13:01:32","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T13:01:32","slug":"how-long-does-a-scientific-paper-need-to-be-do-length-limits-have-a-detrimental-effect-on-scientific-reporting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/2015\/05\/14\/how-long-does-a-scientific-paper-need-to-be-do-length-limits-have-a-detrimental-effect-on-scientific-reporting\/","title":{"rendered":"How long does a scientific paper need to be? Do length limits have a detrimental effect on scientific reporting?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.lse.ac.uk\/impactofsocialsciences\/2015\/05\/06\/how-long-does-a-scientific-paper-need-to-be\/\" target=\"_blank\">blog this week<\/a> by the London School of Economics and Political Science questions the current policy of many journals to restrict manuscript word count.<\/p>\n<p>In principle, length limits should help with the accessibility and readability of a scientific paper. But in practice these limits often achieve the opposite effect.\u00a0Now that journals are becoming online-only, the author of the blog &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.lse.ac.uk\/impactofsocialsciences\/2015\/05\/06\/how-long-does-a-scientific-paper-need-to-be\/#author\" target=\"_blank\">Dorothy Bishop<\/a> &#8211; argues that lengths limits are far less relevant. She states: &#8220;<strong>Yes, we should encourage authors to be succinct, but not so succinct that scientific communication is compromised<\/strong>&#8220;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A blog this week by the London School of Economics and Political Science questions the current policy of many journals to restrict manuscript word count. In principle, length limits should &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/2015\/05\/14\/how-long-does-a-scientific-paper-need-to-be-do-length-limits-have-a-detrimental-effect-on-scientific-reporting\/\" class=\"read-more\">Continue Reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How long does a scientific paper need to be? Do length limits have a detrimental effect on scientific reporting?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"How long does a scientific paper need to be? Do length limits have a detrimental effect on scientific reporting?","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_publicize_connection_overrides":[],"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[108513023,131850],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal-selection","category-medical-writing","post-no-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Yk5l-4w","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282,"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions\/282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}